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“I should like friendship with you… and trust. I should like that respect for each other which grows in the breast without demand for the huddlings of sex.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

Friendship , Sex

“When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

Thinking , Fight , Sincerity

“We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems.”

Frank Herbert

Without Me, You're Nothing: The Essential Guide to Home Computers (1981), co-written with Max Barnard
General sources

Question , Dependency

“Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!"”

Frank Herbert

"Introduction" to New World or No World (1970)
General sources

People , Time

“Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.”

Frank Herbert

Gowachin Mrreg to Jorj X. McKie; p. 297
The Bureau of Sabotage series, The Dosadi Experiment (1977)

“It wasn’t the kind of answer he'd expected — too subtly penetrating and leaving too much uncommitted. He reminded himself that it was difficult to control uncommitted people. Once a man had invested his energies, he could be twisted and turned at will… but if the man held back, conserved those energies…”

Frank Herbert book The Green Brain

The Green Brain (1966)

People

“I only believe in certain kinds of hell," she said, and again she was looking at him, the green eyes steady.
"To each his own, eh?"
"You said it; I didn’t.”

Frank Herbert book The Green Brain

The Green Brain (1966)

Hell

“Dune was aimed at this whole idea of the infallible leader because my view of history says mistakes made by a leader (or made in a leader's name) are amplified by the numbers who follow without question. That's how 900 people wound up in Guyana drinking poison Kool-Aid. That's how the U. S. said "Yes, sir, Mister Charismatic John Kennedy!" and found itself embroiled in Vietnam. That's how Germany said "Sieg Heil!"”

Frank Herbert

and murdered more than six million of our fellow human beings.
"Introduction", to Eye, (1987)
General sources

People , History , Idea , Drink

“Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?”

Frank Herbert

"From The Trial of Trials", p. 252
The Bureau of Sabotage series, The Dosadi Experiment (1977)

“We sift reality through screens composed of ideas. (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are necessarily limited by language, by the ways we can describe them. That is to say: language cuts the grooves in which our thoughts move. If we seek new validity forms (other laws and other orders) we must step outside language.”

Frank Herbert book The Santaroga Barrier

Source: The Santaroga Barrier (1968), Chapter Ten

Law , Way , Idea , Reality

“If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.”

Frank Herbert

"Doll Factory, Gun Factory" (1973), essay reprinted in The Maker of Dune : Insights of a Master of Science Fiction (1987), edited by Tim O'Reilly
General sources

Nature , Future

“You can say things which cannot be done. This is elementary. The trick is to keep attention focused on what is said and not on what can be done.”

Frank Herbert

"BuSab [Bureau of Sabotage] Manual"; p. 87
The Bureau of Sabotage series, Whipping Star (1969)

“Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.”

Frank Herbert

"Gowachin Aphorism"; p. 111
The Bureau of Sabotage series, Whipping Star (1969)

Learning , Training

“Is it possible this triviality is a code of some sort? the Brain wondered. But how could it be … unless there's more to these emotional inconsequentials and this talk of a God than appears on the surface?
The Brain had begun its career in logics as a pragmatic atheist. Now doubts began to creep into its computations, and it classified doubt as an emotion.”

Frank Herbert book The Green Brain

The Green Brain (1966)

God , Appearance

“Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.”

Frank Herbert

"From The Wreave Commentary"; p. 136
The Bureau of Sabotage series, Whipping Star (1969)

Support , Thinking

“Without coming fully awake, Rhin felt his presence beside her, experienced a primitive demand for his protective masculinity. She nestled against him, murmured, "its so hot. Doesn’t it ever cool off?"”

Frank Herbert book The Green Brain

The Green Brain (1966)

“Life exists immersed in a sea of unconsciousness", he reminded himself.
"In the drug, these people gain a view of that sea.”

Frank Herbert book The Santaroga Barrier

Source: The Santaroga Barrier (1968), Chapter Ten

Life , People , Sea

“Does a population have informed consent when a ruling minority acts in secret to ignite a war, doing this to justify the existence of the minority's forces? […] failure to provide full information for informed consent on such an issue represents an ultimate crime.”

Frank Herbert

"From The Trial of Trials", p. 246
The Bureau of Sabotage series, The Dosadi Experiment (1977)

War , Secret , Failure